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monstrousfiling2024-03-08 07:16 pm
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SLIME
Slimes are amorphous, viscous creatures, highly resilient and flexible.
[example species: not required, but can be gastropods, jellyfish, sea cucumbers/nudibranchs or have other mollusk elements]
✧ MANDATORY ✧
✦ Feeding: Scraps. Slimes can make use of any physical matter. While they can dissolve whole prey via immersion or invasion, they are most efficient at taking care of leftovers.
✦ Amorphous, translucent body. Slimes can shape themselves as they see fit. Their default, relaxed shape may be humanoid, animal, bloblike or otherwise, but generally prefer legless forms for balance and stability. They can easily shapeshift into various designs, compress themselves small, flatten into a puddle, etc. They cannot gain abilities in this way such as flight from wing-shapes, however.
✦ A nucleus. This is the brain or core of a slime and can take any form. It must be inside the body and can move from place to place within it, but cannot change shape and size itself. It is much more fragile than the rest of the slime, and if destroyed, the slime loses cohesion and dies.
✦ High tolerance to physical harm. Since they lack traditional body structures, it is difficult to harm a slime.
✦ Slimes can regain lost or destroyed slime in the same way other creatures heal wounds.
✦ Must choose one of the following weaknesses: water, or extreme temperatures. Slimes may dissolve when submerged or experience water as acid; or alternatively, may become sluggish or freeze in cold or dry out and wither in heat, where the extreme ends are fatal.
✧ OPTIONAL ✧
✦ Alternate form. A slime can turn into a mundane animal (or simply a smaller blob) for stealth purposes or to travel fast (just kidding).
✦ Body may include frills, eye stalks, or other animal traits.
✦ Nucleus may be a functional eye, though seeing through different perspectives at once may cause disorientation.
✦ Sticky residue. Slimes may leave a trail or residue from their body, or use their slime as a sticky trap. This can be washed away with water.
✦ Poisonous exterior. This may inflict paralysis or be toxic to ingest.
✦ Color-changing based on mood or other factors.
✦ A shell, and/or bones or some kind of skeletal structure suspended in the slime. These choices add to physical defense/offense, and can make it easier to hold certain shapes or more detailed forms. However, they can prevent actions like puddling or more freeform shifting. Shells and bones can be discarded when necessary, but take time to regenerate or must be replaced via scavenging.
✦ Doppelganger. Slimes may temporarily perfectly copy a target's appearance, but holding it for long is difficult. They may also struggle to mimic voices.
✦ Division. Slimes may divide their mass and control it separately or leave it with simple autonomous suggestions. Slime disconnected from the main body for more than 24 hours falls inert and cannot be reintegrated.
✦ Slower movement.
✦ Faulty memory. Slimes are scatterbrained and have trouble holding onto short-term information.
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[example species: not required, but can be gastropods, jellyfish, sea cucumbers/nudibranchs or have other mollusk elements]
✧ MANDATORY ✧
✦ Feeding: Scraps. Slimes can make use of any physical matter. While they can dissolve whole prey via immersion or invasion, they are most efficient at taking care of leftovers.
✦ Amorphous, translucent body. Slimes can shape themselves as they see fit. Their default, relaxed shape may be humanoid, animal, bloblike or otherwise, but generally prefer legless forms for balance and stability. They can easily shapeshift into various designs, compress themselves small, flatten into a puddle, etc. They cannot gain abilities in this way such as flight from wing-shapes, however.
✦ A nucleus. This is the brain or core of a slime and can take any form. It must be inside the body and can move from place to place within it, but cannot change shape and size itself. It is much more fragile than the rest of the slime, and if destroyed, the slime loses cohesion and dies.
✦ High tolerance to physical harm. Since they lack traditional body structures, it is difficult to harm a slime.
✦ Slimes can regain lost or destroyed slime in the same way other creatures heal wounds.
✦ Must choose one of the following weaknesses: water, or extreme temperatures. Slimes may dissolve when submerged or experience water as acid; or alternatively, may become sluggish or freeze in cold or dry out and wither in heat, where the extreme ends are fatal.
✧ OPTIONAL ✧
✦ Alternate form. A slime can turn into a mundane animal (or simply a smaller blob) for stealth purposes or to travel fast (just kidding).
✦ Body may include frills, eye stalks, or other animal traits.
✦ Nucleus may be a functional eye, though seeing through different perspectives at once may cause disorientation.
✦ Sticky residue. Slimes may leave a trail or residue from their body, or use their slime as a sticky trap. This can be washed away with water.
✦ Poisonous exterior. This may inflict paralysis or be toxic to ingest.
✦ Color-changing based on mood or other factors.
✦ A shell, and/or bones or some kind of skeletal structure suspended in the slime. These choices add to physical defense/offense, and can make it easier to hold certain shapes or more detailed forms. However, they can prevent actions like puddling or more freeform shifting. Shells and bones can be discarded when necessary, but take time to regenerate or must be replaced via scavenging.
✦ Doppelganger. Slimes may temporarily perfectly copy a target's appearance, but holding it for long is difficult. They may also struggle to mimic voices.
✦ Division. Slimes may divide their mass and control it separately or leave it with simple autonomous suggestions. Slime disconnected from the main body for more than 24 hours falls inert and cannot be reintegrated.
✦ Slower movement.
✦ Faulty memory. Slimes are scatterbrained and have trouble holding onto short-term information.
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